The Bible for Grown-Ups
By: Simon Loveday
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Bible for Grown-Ups neither requires, nor rejects, belief. It sets out to help intelligent adul…
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1. The Woman in White
By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet
4.01
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more
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"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
2. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
By: Adam Rutherford
4.03
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared …"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
"(...) prawo Godwina (tendencja do pojawiania się wzmianki o Hitlerze w przedłużających się dyskusjach w sieci) lub prawo nagłówków Betteridge'a (jeśli nagłówek zawiera pytanie, odpowiedź prawdopodobn…"-Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
3. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
4. My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
By: Scott Stossel
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author's struggles with anxiety, and of the histo… read more
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- nonfiction
5. A Happy Death
By: Albert Camus , Richard Howard , Jean Sarocchi
4.15
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel… read more
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6. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
By: Rob Bell
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
We have to test everything.I thank God for anybody anywhere who is pointing people to the mysteries… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
8. Prelude to Foundation
By: Isaac Asimov
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition for ISBN: It is 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Impe… read more
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9. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more
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10. Murder as a Fine Art (Thomas De Quincey, #1)
By: David Morrell
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Gaslit London is brought to its knees in David Morrell's brilliant historical thriller. Thomas De Q… read more
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11. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
By: James Hogg , John Carey
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known n… read more
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12. Why the Allies Won
By: Richard Overy
3.73
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Richard Overy's bold book begins by throwing out the stock answers to this great question: Germany … read more
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13. Reality is Not What it Seems
By: Carlo Rovelli
3.17
Format: 120 pages,
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physicscomes a new book about the mind-bendi… read more
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14. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more
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15. Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense
By: Francis Spufford
4.03
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Francis Spufford's Unapologeticis a wonderfully pugnacious defense of Christianity. Refuting critic… read more
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16. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
By: Reni Eddo-Lodge
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more
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17. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
18. Goodbye to Berlin
By: Christopher Isherwood
3.95
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not… read more
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19. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
20. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
21. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
22. The Trial
By: Rob Rinder
4.24
Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition
An unputdownable murder mystery by Britain's best-loved criminal barrister Rob Rinder. ONE MURDE… read more
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"Luckily,Mum,there aren't any nice young ladies in my life so that's not really a problem."-Rob Rinder, The Trial
23. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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24. The Shortest History of Germany
By: James Hawes
3.72
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime. In his acclaimed new bestseller, now in paperback, … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that …"-James Hawes, The Shortest History of Germany
25. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"The corporation feels no pain."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
26. France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
By: John Julius Norwich
3.97
Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of Frenc… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"With the Roman Empire effectively gone (...) Gaul disintegrated into a mass of small barbarian states under so-called kings, dukes, and counts. As we know however, nature abhors a vacuum, sooner or l…"-John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
"In 1870, the throne was offered to Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Had the Prince rejected the offer at once, there might have been no Franco-Prussian war, and Napoleon III might have end…"-John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
"Martyrs were innumerable, among them, Saint Denis, 3rd century bishop of Paris, who, when beheaded, calmly picked up his severed head and walked several miles to the site of the abbey that bears his …"-John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
"[The Gauls] were carnivores through and through and they loved fighting. Their horsemanship probably outclassed even that of the Romans and, though they lacked the more sophisticated Roman weaponry, …"-John Julius Norwich, France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle
27. Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world … read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
28. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By: Daniel Finkelstein
4.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
29. See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
By: Jess Hill
4.66
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria’s dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone … read more
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- nonfiction
"I don't bash you with my fists, I bash you with my emotions, to keep you under control."-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
"I explain patriarchy as a dual system of power: men's power over women, and some men's power over other men. - Michael Kimmel"-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
"Mangan is adamant: women's violence may cause distress to men in abusive relationships, but men are almost never in danger of being killed."-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
"Whether perpetrators abuse strategically or on impulse, however, they usually have one thing in common: a supercharged sense of entitlement."-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence
30. Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World
By: Jonathan Bate
4.09
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a r… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- literary criticism
31. The Bible for Grown-Ups
By: Simon Loveday
3.73
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Bible for Grown-Ups neither requires, nor rejects, belief. It sets out to help intelligent adul… read more
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- religion
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- literary criticism
